How to Use abomination in a Sentence

abomination

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  • Some people view the sculpture as art while others see it as an abomination.
  • There’s no sense in trying to round the rough edges off of abomination.
    — al, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Last week: a true abomination in the form of rainbow bagels.
    — Shannon Sarna, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • That’s quite an achievement even if the song is an abomination.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
  • The hypocrisy and failures of our state leaders are an abomination.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 21 May 2021
  • The ending was bizarre at best, an abomination at worst.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The scars of that abomination are still etched in the religious divides of Ireland.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The whole shebang, say purists, is nothing less than an abomination.
    — Leanne Italie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2023
  • From his pulpit Knox preached that female rule was an abomination in the eyes of God.
    — Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The magnitude of the abomination almost forbids that it be mentioned in the same breath as any other horror.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • It’s hard to have any reaction to this abomination beyond blind rage.
    — Kristen Bellstrom, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2018
  • There’s a map like this for lots of American cities, this abomination of red lines.
    — USA Today, 26 June 2023
  • Those who think it’s a blast and those who think it’s an abomination will likely cite the same evidence for their beliefs.
    — Sam Biddle, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2020
  • My biggest complaint is the god-awful abomination of a stem from Satori.
    — James Huang, Outside Online, 25 Oct. 2022
  • For a prime minister to entrust the future of the country to a referendum would have struck him as an abomination.
    — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Not the mention that atrocity of a kit... An abomination.
    — SI.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • That abomination was four times deadlier than the one in Jacksonville.
    — The Editors, National Review, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Those hairy abominations, that hairy one in the corner touching himself with his leather fingers, that’s a man?
    — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2017
  • Woe rather to those that made the Holy an abomination, and extinguishable.
    — John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Ina clans devoted to racial purity see her as an abomination, but her own clans will try to protect her.
    — Stephanie Burt, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
  • And two: plastic, loud abominations that fascinate and please your child.
    — Michaela Bechler, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2018
  • To witness millions living one step away from famine, while there is so much excess, is an abomination.
    — Abby Maxman For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 16 May 2022
  • There are hundreds or thousands of recipes for duck a l’orange on the internet, and many of them use such abominations as marmalade or orange juice.
    — Daniel Neman, sacbee, 26 June 2018
  • The Super League is both an abomination and a recognition of what soccer is now.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Every single one of the legislators who voted for this abomination is up for re-election in less than a year.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 19 Dec. 2017
  • There are plenty of innovations—some of them true abominations—in the works, all intended to shorten and hot up the game.
    — Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The Seahawks offensive line has been an abomination most of this season.
    — Ryan Kartje, Orange County Register, 13 Jan. 2017
  • But there can be none for such abominations as Processing or Go.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Price gouging is treated as moral abomination and, at times, as a legal offense.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 14 Sep. 2017
  • On par with that abomination of a Parking entrance in Love Park.
    — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 14 June 2018

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